No one is wise at all times.
PLINY THE ELDEROn a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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